Liver-Sparing Total Body Irradiation Using Helical Tomotherapy for Relapsed Pre-B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Romy J Megahed, Gary D Lewis, Somayeh Gholami, April Wurtz, Santanu Samanta, Mausam Patel · 2025
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Description
Six doctors led by Romy Megahed report the first case of whole-body radiation that shields the liver, given with a spiral scanning machine. The patient was a man of twenty-three whose childhood blood cancer had returned. He already had liver disease, and full-body radiation can harm the liver, so the team shaped the dose.
The whole body got the planned dose in eight sessions, while the liver's average dose stayed well under the safety cap. The authors say the scan-guided machine made this shaping possible. The case shows liver-sparing treatment is feasible for patients who need body-wide radiation but have a weak liver.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Romy J Megahed, Gary D Lewis, Somayeh Gholami, April Wurtz, Santanu Samanta, Mausam Patel |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 9 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |